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Daimler included emissions-cheating software on diesels, German magazine says
US investigators are looking into whether Mercedes parent company Daimler used illegal software to cheat emissions tests on diesel vehicles in the US, according to German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, whose report was picked up by Reuters. Though the investigation itself is not new—it was reported as early as April 2016 that the Department of Justice was looking into Daimler's actions around emissions testing its diesel vehicles—the new reports of emissions-cheating software draw parallels to Volkswagen's notorious emissions scandal.
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Wouldn't be surprising. Engineers would likely know that VW had to be cheating and you have to "cheat to compete".
Yep, once a precedent is made it's hard not to go down that path especially in such a competitive space. It's just too bad it resulted in so much damage. I used to really appreciate those clean diesel cars , and now I'm just disgusted by everything diesel. For those who haven't seen the netflix docu "Dirty Money", there is an episode about the VW scandal. Highly recommended watch.
I was seriously considering a VW as my next vehicle when the news broke. Turned out "Clean diesel" was like "clean coal".
I wound up buying an Accord.